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It’s been 9 years since I started to learn Wardley Mapping. If you’ve followed me since the beginning, then you know I love to share about changes in the practice. (And plenty has changed!) But every once in a while I like to share what’s happening with the tools, too. My first ever post about… Continue reading Top 5 Wardley Mapping Tools for 2024

Hello, my name is Joaquín, and I hit my head with Wardley Maps. Yes, literally I use Wardley Maps to find answers that I do not have and Gen-AI is still not ready, and during the last few weeks, I’ve been looking for concrete answers to a specific question: What are the concrete uses of… Continue reading What are the concrete uses of Wardley Maps for a CIO?

My co-author, David Holl, and I are both freaking out. We have test copies in our hands. That makes it real, right? If you’re on the wait list, you’ll get it a week earlier (July 10th).   Q: What’s a Pip Deck? It’s a skills upgrade and confidence booster in a box. 54 tactics that… Continue reading Strategy Tactics is coming July 17th!

In a welcome first for us, we have a response to our last edition! Yoga writes: I have in my head a model that Wardley mapping is useful only after you see how it can help you. And for that, I think you only realize it after it’s been sold to you in a very… Continue reading How do I know if it’s right?

Welcome back to another entry in our Wardley Mapping Advice series. Got a Wardley Mapping question? Send it in here! Audrey M. asks: I’m not sure how i didn’t realize that you were also involved with Pip Decks. Sadly, I find myself in the same boat with the Pip Decks and the Wardley Maps. Intellectually,… Continue reading There’s nothing wrong with you. Wardley Mapping is just hard.

Gogo asks: I own a one-person management consulting business. Can you direct me how to use the Wardley Mapping process to game out a strategy to win in my niche? As I also am a one-person operation, I must first warn you that we are not special! It may feel like we are doing something… Continue reading How to game out a strategy

Greg Easthouse asks: How long until we get a wardleyagent gpt ai? Well, Greg, I’m afraid it’s too late. ChatGPT has already taken the lead on this one. Or rather, Steve Pereira kicked the exploration off. So whatever happens next is his fault now. 😛 I, for one, welcome our Wardley-based autonomous overlords! 🤖 In… Continue reading AI-enabled Strategy

Hi there! I asked for your questions about Wardley Mapping, and you sure answered! First up, Joel Eden asks: As a consultant in the areas of design research, design strategy, experience design, lean product management, etc, I already have so many methods that I use with clients and it can feel like we are asking… Continue reading Don’t lead with the label

I’m going to betray my optimism here. You see, I believe that strategy is a skill that you cannot unlearn. Once you know some basics, you become someone who wants to be purposeful… who wants to design things deliberately… who cares. Here’s the story I tell myself: “The more people there are who care, who… Continue reading More people ought to learn strategy